John R. Math is a digital photographer, but he does not digitally alter his pictures. "My images are simple subjects," he states. "They are alive with movement and color." His shots are soft-focus impressions of these subjects not simply as they are, but as they are seen in the world, within the contexts in which they are found—stalks of grass swaying in the wind, the legs of a pier awash in tide and sunset.

Math grew up on the Jersey Shore. Summers there with a grandmother who documented in pictures her extensive international travels helped Math learn to see and appreciate the ebb and flow of nature. "God has provided us with beauty, form, and function, even in areas that we would not normally look," he says. "They are there every day for us to discover and enjoy, if only we look more closely."